The patch titled Subject: mm/page_alloc.c: document bulkfree_pcp_prepare() return value has been added to the -mm mm-unstable branch. Its filename is mm-page_allocc-document-bulkfree_pcp_prepare-return-value.patch This patch will shortly appear at https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/mm-page_allocc-document-bulkfree_pcp_prepare-return-value.patch This patch will later appear in the mm-unstable branch at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/process/submit-checklist.rst when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next via the mm-everything branch at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm and is updated there every 2-3 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: mm/page_alloc.c: document bulkfree_pcp_prepare() return value Date: Tue Sep 13 03:30:38 PM PDT 2022 Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx> Cc: ke.wang <ke.wang@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Zhaoyang Huang <huangzhaoyang@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/page_alloc.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) --- a/mm/page_alloc.c~mm-page_allocc-document-bulkfree_pcp_prepare-return-value +++ a/mm/page_alloc.c @@ -1507,6 +1507,7 @@ static bool free_pcp_prepare(struct page return free_pages_prepare(page, order, true, FPI_NONE); } +/* return true if this page has an inappropriate state */ static bool bulkfree_pcp_prepare(struct page *page) { if (debug_pagealloc_enabled_static()) _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are mm-oom_kill-add-trace-logs-in-process_mrelease-system-call-fix.patch mm-demotion-add-support-for-explicit-memory-tiers-fix.patch mm-demotion-update-node_is_toptier-to-work-with-memory-tiers-fix-2.patch mm-drop-oom-code-from-exit_mmap-fix-fix.patch mm-delete-unused-mmf_oom_victim-flag-vs-mglru.patch mm-add-merging-after-mremap-resize-checkpatch-fixes.patch mm-reduce-noise-in-show_mem-for-lowmem-allocations-vs-mapletree.patch mm-reduce-noise-in-show_mem-for-lowmem-allocations-vs-mapletree-fix.patch mm-vmscan-fix-a-lot-of-comments-vs-mglru.patch swap-add-swap_cache_get_folio-fix.patch memcg-reduce-size-of-memcg-vmstats-structures-fix.patch mm-damon-vaddr-add-a-comment-for-default-case-in-damon_va_apply_scheme-fix.patch mm-page_allocc-rename-check_free_page-to-free_page_is_bad.patch mm-page_allocc-rename-check_free_page-to-free_page_is_bad-fix.patch mm-page_allocc-document-bulkfree_pcp_prepare-return-value.patch fs-uninline-inode_maybe_inc_iversion.patch ipc-msg-mitigate-the-lock-contention-with-percpu-counter-checkpatch-fixes.patch